Gay Teens on TV: A Timele |

Contents:

• THE UNSETTLED PLACE OF THE GAY TEEN FILM HISTORY
• GAY YOUTH
• STRAIGHT VS. GAY AGE OF CONSENT: THE DIFFERENCE

THE UNSETTLED PLACE OF THE GAY TEEN FILM HISTORY

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6% of Amerins who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or queer sce s last poll 2017.

5% – intify as gay, followed by 11. Mastream LGBT anizatns for a long time weren’t trans-clive, and trans activists long warned that focg on gay marriage would leave behd other LGBT people who are vulnerable and wouldn’t be protected by marriage – like trans people and youth. Rightwg nservativ have been recyclg the same language that we saw 15 to 20 years ago around gays and lbians – the language of “child endangerment”, “groomg”, “pedophilia”, the need to “protect children” and “protect schools” through really rtrictive laws.

GAY YOUTH

A rerd-breakg number of gay and bisexual teenage boys are out to their parents.

Whe participants were more likely to be out than Black participants; gay participants were more likely to be out than bisexual participants; and those who were ls relig were more likely to be out than those who were more. The Unsettled Place of the Gay Teen Film HistoryPrr to the recent boom movi about queer kids, their stggl played out boundary-phg die films and entertag sikick rol. Courty of NeonOn this past New Year’s Day, the mician Hayley Kiyoko christened the year to e as “20gayteen.

STRAIGHT VS. GAY AGE OF CONSENT: THE DIFFERENCE

In this month’s issue of The Atlantic, I wrote about the proliferatn of gay teens recent, wily seen movi: the h rom- Love, Simon, the buzzy nversn-therapy dramas Boy Erased and The Mistn of Cameron Post, and the Bt Picture nomee Call Me by Your Name and wner Moonlight. In ntent and style, the works vary wily, but they share a somewhat rerved, ut tone as they portray kids g to unrstand their homosexualy. Gay kids have long shown up mastream high-school edy, jt not as stars.

All about the phenomenon of the “gay bt iend. The Mistn of Cameron Post and Boy Erased leralize the way that homophobia n rip people away om the tradnal visn of teenagerdom—the backseat make outs, the backwoods keggers—and send them on drab reprogrammg missns which the kids end up policg and punishg themselv.

Last year’s absorbg die drama Beach Rats, for example, portrayed a closeted Brooklyn bro who (spoiler alert) helps his iends mug a guy he meets on a hookup appeal of the lightweight Love, Simon, though, was imagg that a gay kid might fall fortably to a faiar g-of-age groove: ocsnally mortifyg, but never actually trmatic.